After assisting on 26 of 36 made shots last game against the Knicks, the game plan went right out the window. This may have been the ugliest basketball game of all time. The Celtics did win this game 101-98 in OT against the Pacers so it's not all bad but it was pretty close to it. The Celtics shot just 39.8% from the field and 28.6% from 3 with just 17 assists and 20 total turnovers. Yes, that is the stat line of the winning team... That right there should validate my statement about this being...
Jan 11, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 126
This is the exact bounce back game the Celtics desperately needed after a brutal collapse against the Knicks just two days ago. JB was the star of the night for sure with a 22pts 11reb and 11ast triple double in this 99-75 win over the Knicks! Typically in a blowout one, one of two things will happen: either your team will do something incredible like hitting a million threes or the other team will turn the ball over a hundred times and shoot horribly from the field. Neither of those things real...
Jan 09, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 125
The Celtics were riding high up 57-32 against the Knicks with just under 4 minutes left in the first half. The ball was moving and we were hitting shots like the best of them. Offensively and defensively the Celtics were playing excellent basketball in the first half and then the wheels fell off the wagon once again. There are few things in life that are guaranteed but at this point, the Celtics blowing a big lead is pretty close to being guaranteed. The Celtics were outscored by 9 in the third ...
Jan 07, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 124
The Celtics finally have a healthy (ish) team again and fall 99-97 to the Spurs. This is the first time in a long time that we had our normal starting lineup together and to start it looked good. Jaylen Brown was cooking early and Marcus Smart was zipping the ball around like the PG we have been asking for. Once JB checked out and Schroder checked in, we saw the ball move through Schroder and Tatum instead of Smart and the ball just stuck to them. The ball movement stopped and so did our offense...
Jan 06, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 123
After a huge win to end 2021 against the Suns, the Celtics looked to start 2022 on a high note as well. the first quarter they came out and played fairly well and looked like they were going to win this handily. They had a 28-19 lead after the first and then proceeded to lose the 2nd quarter 23-17 and lost the 3rd quarter 35-20.... What plagued the Celtics during this horrible stretch of basketball? TURNOVERS! This has been one of our Achilles Heels for the last couple years and tonight the Celt...
Jan 03, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 122
Here's another example of how frustrating this season has been for this Celtics team. This was by far the best this Celtics team has played this year. The ball movement and player movement was spectacular tonight and the Celtics come out with a huge win against the NBA Best Phoenix Suns. This was a game that the Celtics dominated through and through and a lot of that came from the excellent play of Robert Williams who contributed with his first triple double while also adding 5 blocks. This was ...
Dec 31, 2021•16 min•Season 2Ep. 121
The Celtics lost this game to the Clippers in an embarrassing fashion. Timelord was the only one in my eyes that played well. He ended the night with 16pts 14reb including 10 offensive rebounds! He left the 4th quarter after hitting his head on the floor making a Smart-like diving play that saved a possession but he did return which was good to see. Besides Timelord being the only bright spot in this one, the Celtics shot historically bad from 3 shooting just 4-42 (9.5%). To make things worse, G...
Dec 30, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 120
The Celtics were without 4 key rotation players in Tatum, Smart, Shroder and Richardson but the Timberwolves were without 6 of their 7 top scorers and all of their starters. This was basically a full G League team in the Timberwolves and should have been an easy win. The Celtics did what they have done best and that is play down to their competition all year long. We saw another really solid game from Pritchard who contributed 24pts 8reb and 6ast and we also got to see two recent Covid victims i...
Dec 28, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 119
The Celtics led this one against the Bucks for 47 minutes and 30 seconds but a couple costly turnovers by Tatum threw this one away for the Celtics. We saw bright performances from Pritchard, and Jabari which was certainly good to see from the bench. Robert Williams and Marcus Smart had another solid game but it was the play of our stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown that held us back in this one. JB had a scorching hot start with 16 points in the first but followed it up with poor scoring effor...
Dec 25, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 118
The Celtics faced off against a Cavaliers team that was 3rd in the NBA in Defensive Efficiency and 4th in the NBA in Net Rating tonight and played a near 48 minutes. The Celtics certainly had lapses tonight but this was a solid game from start to finish and a game where they led by double digits for most of the night. JB and Timelord both had monster nights but we also saw Romeo and Pritchard contribute throughout. This was a particularly tough game for Tatum, Smart and Schroder who combined to ...
Dec 23, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 117
Here we are with another game featuring a long injury report. The Celtics started this one off pretty sluggish falling behind 15-7 early forcing Ime to call a timeout. The Celtics adjusted fairly well the rest of the first quarter and played a solid second quarter battling back into this game despite shooting only 2-12 from 3 in the half. We saw another game where Pritchard played exceptionally well and he was the reason the Celtics battled back into this one. Tatum and Brown both did a good job...
Dec 21, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 116
Richardson shines in the Kemba/Fournier revenge game and come out with big win against Knicks. The Celtics played 3 excellent quarters and got solid bench contributions from both Richardson (27pts 5reb 4ast) and Pritchard (16pts 3reb 3ast) which really helped make this game possible. Kemba and Fournier combined for 61 points but Richardson blocked every comeback the Knicks threw our way. This was by far the best game we have seen from Richardson this season as he shot 5-7 from 3 and raised his 3...
Dec 19, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 115
Six Celtics players on the injury report tonight (5 from covid protocols) and then Romeo got hurt early so the Celtics played this one with a very limited roster. With that being said, the Celtics started this game very ugly. The Warriors were getting every offensive rebound early in this one and the Celtics found themselves down by as many as 20 in the second quarter. The Celtics did battle back in the third quarter starting with a 17-5 run with all 17 points coming from Tatum and Brown as well...
Dec 18, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 114
The Celtics crushed the Bucks tonight in an unbelievable team win. This is one of the more frustrating games of the season for me because it shows that there is so much potential for this team to be special yet we only sit at 14-14 on the season. With that being said, this really was a beautiful game offensively and defensively for the Celtics. The name of the game was ball movement as the Celtics tallied 31 assists on the night headlined by Smart's 11 assists with JB and Tatum contributing 5 an...
Dec 14, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 113
It seems like every game during this west coast road trip has been a new rock bottom for this Celtics team. This was a game where, offensively, we couldn't get anything going against the Suns. 3 players in double digits with Tatum leading the pack at 24 points but this is another horrible shooting performance for him. He started off hot scoring 12 points in the first 6 minutes of the game and only scored 12 points in the remaining 28 (he played 34 minutes) and that is a huge issue. He finished s...
Dec 11, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 112
After getting blown out by the Lakers last night, the Celtics came out against the Clippers and played some pretty good basketball to start. We had a 28-24 lead after the first and had some solid bench contributions with 14 of our 28 points from the bench. That's when the wheels fell off for the Celtics. They turned the ball over time and time again and the Clippers capitalized on them. In the first half alone, the Clippers scored 22 points off of 13 turnovers which led to a 20-5 run in the seco...
Dec 09, 2021•13 min•Season 2Ep. 111
Well this one started off as a fun one and looked like a game that Tatum was going to dominate in. In the first four minutes of tonight's game, Tatum scored 14 points on 5-5 shooting and the Celtics had a 22-12 lead. From there it was pretty downhill. The Celtics were down 5 at half and that ballooned to being down 16 after the third. The Celtics really lacked any offensive punch in the second and third quarters only scoring 22 and 20 respectively. This is a game that really highlights the need ...
Dec 08, 2021•20 min•Season 2Ep. 110
Celtics walk away with an impressive win where the offense really shined. After losing to a fantastic shooting performance by Utah, the Celtics came out guns blazing. The Celtics shot 56% from the field and 57% from 3 which was great to see considering the 3 point shot has haunted us for the majority of this season. Besides a horrible 2nd quarter in which the Celtics were outscored 35-26, there weren't many negatives to take from this game. We saw a lot of very impressive individual performances...
Dec 05, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 109
The Celtics score 130 points, win the turnover battle 19-6, outscore the Jazz 31-10 on points off turnovers, shoot 22-22 from the FT line and shoot 52% from the field. Looking at those stats, there is no way I could imagine the Celtics losing but the Jazz put on a historic 3 point shooting performance. The Jazz shot 27-51 from the 3 point line alone and their starters shot 19-30 (63%). No matter how well you play, it is going to be really hard to compete with a team like that. NBA Tracking Data ...
Dec 04, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 108
Well this was certainly an ugly win for the Celtics but every win counts at this point. The one positive you can take from the game tonight is the fact that the Celtics held Joel Embiid to just 13 points on 3-17 from the field in a masterful defensive effort. Al had the assignment of guarding Embiid for a large portion of the night but Enes Kanter Freedom logged some good minutes on him as well. Running the double big lineup for the majority of the game also gave Boston the flexibility to double...
Dec 02, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 107
The Celtics had a pretty well balanced attack tonight with some help from the bench in tonight's win against the Raptors. Marcus Smart was the Player of the Game in my eyes with a team high 21pts while also adding 8 rebounds and 6 assists. We've stressed the need for playmaking and Smart has been doing a great job of that but we also saw a new face lead the team in assists tonight. Jayson Tatum, while he struggled mightily on the shooting front, added 10 assists tonight and was doing it by penet...
Nov 29, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 106
Celtics fall to 10-10 on the season after another embarrassing loss to the San Antonio Spurs. It's hard to write anything positive about a game where you fell down 24 points to the 4-13 Spurs. Even during the stretch of basketball where the Celtics came back and were up by 7 late in the 4th, the Celtics still weren't playing great basketball which is tough to watch. The cherry on top for tonight was going scoreless in the last 3:21 of the game and being outscored 15-0 in that span. I talked abou...
Nov 27, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 105
Well this one started off as ugly as it gets. Celtics found themselves down 7 after the first, down 13 at half and down as much as 29 in the third. The Celtics actually played fairly well in the 4th but at that point it was too far gone. This loss comes down to the fact that the Celtics just couldn't hit a shot to save their lives. They shot just 36% from the field and only 23% from 3 in this one and missed several wide open shots. In a game where you play the Nets, you can't have Tatum go off a...
Nov 25, 2021•17 min•Season 2Ep. 104
This is the exact game you want to see against the Rockets. Let's face it, the Rockets are horrible and the Celtics made that very apparent in tonight's 18 point win. After missing his last 8 games, Jaylen Brown showed out tonight with one of the most impressive 60 second stints I have seen in some time. He started it off with a rebound, hard push, Euro step and impossible finish for 2 and then hits a transition 3 immediately after followed by another transition 3 immediately after that. Overall...
Nov 23, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 103
The Celtics held a pretty commanding lead throughout this one, being up 20 at multiple points throughout the night but that is not how it ended. While it may have been a pretty ugly 4th quarter, the Celtics pulled out a 6 point win on the second night of a back to back. Similar to last night, we got great performances from everyone in our starting lineup. Tatum had another very efficient night and was getting downhill to the basket a lot which is great to see. Schroder and Smart held it down aga...
Nov 21, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 102
After a brutal start to this game, being outscored 38-30 in the first quarter, the Celtics turned it around and torched the Lakers 130-108. The Lakers are not a good team at protecting the paint to begin with but this was one of the most impressive games as far as attacking the paint goes. Tatum, Smart and Schroder all got downhill a bunch forcing easy baskets or kick outs for open threes. I don't want to jinx anything but it looks like Tatum might be back in rhythm which is much needed. I know ...
Nov 20, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 101
During the last 7 games, the Celtics have led the NBA in defensive efficiency. Tonight was not on brand as the Hawks torched us in many aspects of the night. While there are a lot of negatives from tonight's game, we did see a lot of good performances. Grant Williams played an excellent game with 18pts and 6 rebounds and all season long people have been calling for Marcus to shoot less and pass more and tonight he led the team with 11 assists on the night. Tatum finally had a game shooting over ...
Nov 18, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 100
This game started as ugly as last game ended. The Celtics started 1-8 from the field and allowed 5 points off 4 turnovers in the first 6 minutes and found themselves down by 11 in the first quarter before battling back and making it respectable. This was certainly a close one from the second quarter on but the Celtics ultimately pulled this off. We saw solid contributions from Grant Williams and Al Horford tonight throughout the game but it was the play of Josh Richardson and Dennis Schroder lat...
Nov 16, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 99
After going into OT last night against the Bucks, getting on a plane and traveling to Cleveland for a back to back, my expectation was that the Celtics were going to get off to a slow start and the Celtics proved me wrong. Celtics ended the first quarter up 20-9 with a lot of bench players playing significant minutes. We were running this game keeping a steady lead through 3 quarters leading by as many as 19 but allowed the Cavs to go on an 21-2 run in the 3rd and 4th to take a 1 point lead. Fro...
Nov 14, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 98
The Celtics found themselves in another OT game but came out of this one with a big W! Schroder, while he did turn the ball over 6 times, played fantastic basketball today scoring 38 points. Schroder had 11 points in the 4th and 8 in OT and was showing the world how lethal his stop and go is. He is so quick and was getting to the rim with ease tonight and it was much needed. The thing that stands out to me tonight is the defense yet again. Prior to tonight, the Celtics defense has ranked 2nd in ...
Nov 13, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 97
